athens.taipei The Atlas of City Experiences
The Anti-Awards

24 rankings. Every one is the true extreme of a real measurement — there is no worst city, only cities magnificently bad at one specific thing.

All 24 rankings →
The weather6
The Sauna You Can’t LeaveThe Bedroom That Never CoolsThe Umbrella EconomyRain, By The MetreSixteen Thousand DaysThe Year Without a Window
The hours it keeps6
The Cinderella ClauseThe Early Bedtime AwardThe Sunday Ghost TownThe Breakfast DesertThe Great Lunch VanishingThe Part-Time City
Getting out5
The Great Escape IndexHardest City to Leave (In a Hurry)The Domestic BubbleThe Hibernating AirportThe Perth Meridian
The ground and the sky4
The Wobbliest GroundThe Volcano PartyThe Volcano Next DoorThe 3 p.m. Sunset Club
Everything else3
The Monoculture MenuThe Calendar of ExcusesA Gigabyte of Cats
Tools

Three ways to interrogate the atlas rather than read it.

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Compare two cities Head-to-head on absurd terms only. No GDP, no cappuccino index. The year, month by month Where to be in each month, who has the most days off, and when the airports peak. Start from a goal Eat well at 2 a.m. · Work all day from a café — ranked by what the city keeps open.
How this is made

Every figure on this site states where it came from and what it cannot tell you.

Read the method →
Method & principles What we measure, what we refuse to guess, and why rhythm is never a claim about people. Sources Every corpus behind the atlas, with its licence. Books coming soon The long-form city profiles and the method book. Contact · request a city Tell us what the atlas is missing.
The index

126 cities across the atlas, by region — or browse the full A–Z.

Every city, A–Z →
Southern Europe21
RomeMilanBarcelonaMadridAthensLisbon
Western Europe20
LondonParisLuxembourgViennaAmsterdamDublin
North America & Caribbean18
New YorkMiamiAustinSan FranciscoLos AngelesSeattle
CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇨🇦 Canada · metro 223k · 3,185 venues mapped

Pickering

Where Pickering places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is shops open on sunday, where it ranks 25 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇨🇦 Oshawa 23 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Toronto 📖 30 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink3,185 places mapped
10:30–22:30
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11%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
82h
open per week
12%
open 24/7
Shops & errands997 places mapped
08:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
17%
open 24/7
Services828 places mapped
09:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
37%
open on Sundays
58h
open per week
6%
open 24/7
Culture302 places mapped
09:00–20:30
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0%
open past midnight
96%
open on Sundays
66h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
4
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
165
umbrella days a year
30 m
of rain since 1981
668
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2349.3 km
to Dotsero
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:42
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.5 h
longest day of the year
5
public holidays, 2024
18,151
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasurePickering RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11.4% 186 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Indianapolis 11.4%🇮🇶 Karbala 11.4%🇺🇸 Lacey 11.4%🇷🇺 Novorossiysk 11.4%Pickering🇪🇨 Quito 11.4%🇲🇾 Rawang 11.4%🇺🇦 Rivne 11.4%🇫🇷 Tours 11.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 82 h 91 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Abbotsford 82 h🇧🇩 Chattogram 82 h🇭🇺 Kecskemét 82 h🇪🇸 Lugo 82 hPickering🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro 82 h🇪🇸 Segovia 82 h🇺🇸 Spokane 82 h🇪🇸 Zamora 82 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 9.9% 373 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Araraquara 9.9%🇪🇸 Córdoba 9.9%🇬🇧 Littlehampton 9.9%🇧🇷 Niterói 9.9%Pickering🇫🇷 Toulon 9.9%🇫🇮 Turku 9.9%🇧🇷 Cuiabá 9.8%🇪🇸 Cádiz 9.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.9% 365 of 1,878 🇰🇭 Kampot 1.9%🇺🇸 Lancaster 1.9%🇧🇷 Natal 1.9%🇰🇭 Phnom Penh 1.9%Pickering🇺🇸 Rockford 1.9%🇧🇩 Savar 1.9%🇸🇪 Stockholm 1.9%🇮🇳 Talegaon Dabhade 1.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 12.4% 107 of 1,878 🇹🇷 Nevşehir 12.5%🇨🇦 Oshawa 12.5%🇯🇵 Saga 12.5%🇰🇿 Astana 12.4%Pickering🇧🇷 Arujá 12.3%🇲🇾 Kota Kinabalu 12.3%🇧🇷 Cuiabá 12.2%🇦🇱 Tirana 12.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97.4% 25 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Lakeland 97.4%🇦🇺 Langwarrin 97.4%🇺🇸 Los Angeles 97.4%🇷🇺 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 97.4%Pickering🇷🇺 Volgograd 97.4%🇰🇷 Daegu 97.3%🇯🇵 Himeji 97.3%🇭🇰 Hong Kong 97.3%

The same questions are asked of the 126 cities with a written profile, where each one gets its method and its full standings: kitchens open past midnight, hours open per week, open before 8 a.m., vanish at lunch, shops open on sunday.

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